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<title>ANALYSIS #022 · Analysis: before you argue, agree on the words</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>Four laws of logic that end half of all arguments with a single question. And three places where the lecture itself fails them.</description>
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<title>DOSSIER #04 · Dossier: The language of the interface</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>How companies speak about themselves and to their users: from vague wording on the about page to a button label that promises nothing. One question, a genre analysis, an observation and a rule.</description>
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<title>ANALYSIS #021 · Analysis: who gets to change the rules of your money</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>The history of money from a Templar receipt to bitcoin, told through one question: who can change the rules and do they need your consent.</description>
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<title>NOTE #212 · Question first, brief second</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>Question first, brief second A brief records a decision already made. A question records what is still undecided — and that usually determines the outcome…</description>
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<title>QUESTION #041 · Why did interfaces get faster while waiting got longer?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>Loading metrics have improved for a decade. The feeling that the site is thinking has not gone anywhere.</description>
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<title>RESEARCH #017 · Speed as a form of respect</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>What loading metrics actually measure, what they miss, and why a fast site can still feel slow.</description>
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<title>ANALYSIS #020 · Analysis: why solitude started to look like freedom</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>The lecture explains falling birth rates through money, square metres and psychology. We check what the data supports and what rests on an assumption of a single design.</description>
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<title>DOSSIER #02 · Dossier: Speed</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>The gap between measured and experienced speed: where it appears, what creates it and what design does about it. Question, research, observation and rule in one reading route.</description>
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<title>OBSERVATION #058 · A &quot;Submit&quot; button promises nothing</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>The name of an action is the only promise an interface makes before the click.</description>
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<title>DOSSIER #03 · Dossier: Consent</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>What happens at the moment a person agrees to something in an interface: from the legal construct to the size of the checkbox.</description>
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<title>ANALYSIS #019 · Analysis: WCAG 2.2 as an editorial document</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>The accessibility standard is usually read as a checklist. Read as an editorial text it shows something else: it describes obligations to the reader, not restrictions.</description>
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<title>OBSERVATION #055 · Field labels vanished from mobile forms</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<category>Observation</category>
<description>A placeholder inside the field looks cleaner right up to the moment someone starts typing.</description>
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<title>RESEARCH #014 · Consent that cannot be read</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>How consent works in the interface, why it goes unread, and what can change without breaking requirements.</description>
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<title>NOTE #201 · A status instead of a promise</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<category>Note</category>
<description>Two rules that turned out to be one: do not create sections nobody maintains, and do not replace a state with the word “soon”.</description>
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<title>QUESTION #036 · Can trust in a site be seen before the first click?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>The stay-or-leave decision happens before the first headline is read. We do not know what it is made of.</description>
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<title>QUESTION #030 · How much Cyrillic is lost in interfaces designed in Latin?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>The layout is built in English and shipped in Russian. The difference shows up not in translation but in the rhythm of the line.</description>
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<title>OBSERVATION #052 · Empty states explain a product better than the homepage</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>On the homepage a company talks about itself. In an empty state it has to say what actually happens here.</description>
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<title>QUESTION #039 · What does a person actually confirm by pressing &quot;Agree&quot;?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>One button, but what stands behind it differs on every site — and is almost always longer than the willingness to read it.</description>
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<title>ANALYSIS #016 · Analysis: the &quot;About us&quot; page as a genre</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<category>Analysis</category>
<description>The genre has a stable structure, almost independent of the company. We take it apart and see what remains when the mandatory parts go.</description>
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<title>OBSERVATION #049 · Studio sites resemble each other more than their work does</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>Same structure, same order of sections, same wording — while the projects inside differ.</description>
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